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1st Street is broken by the grounds of the Gateway Arch National Park, location of the Gateway Arch. South of the Memorial, it runs from Poplar Street down through the Kosiusko neighborhood to Victor Street where it dead-ends. 1st Street starts up again on Potomac Street and eventually turns into Gasconade Street. To the north, it runs from Washington Avenue as far as North Market Street (different from the downtown Market Street. 1st Street briefly shows up again in Near North Riverfront before turning into Kissock Avenue.

5th Street is officially known as Broadway. Broadway goes as far south as Lemay in St. Louis County where it turns into Kingston Drive. To the north, Broadway intersects with 3rd Street and runs with it as far as Riverview Blvd where it then becomes Bellefontaine Road. Broadway is one of the major boulevards for St. Louis; in the north it passes O'Fallon Park, Bellefontaine Cemetery, and Calvary Cemetery.

12th Street, later 12th Boulevard, is now officially known as Tucker Boulevard, renamed for former Mayor Raymond R. Tucker. It is double sized and serves as the border between Downtown and Downtown West.

As part of Paul McKee's NorthSide project, the broken section of 22nd street near the I-64 interchange is to be restored and rebuilt. A large office tower has been proposed to anchor it to the expanded Gateway Mall.

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Numbered street
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Not to be confused with Route number A numbered street is a street whose name is an ordinal number, as in Second Street or Tenth Avenue. Such forms are among the most common names in North America. Numbered streets were first used in Philadelphia and now exist in major cities. Grid-based naming systems usually start at 1, and then proceed in numerical order, in the United States, seven out of the top ten most common street names are numbers, with the top three names being 2nd, 3rd, and 1st respectively. Some cities also have lettered street names, for example, Washington, D. C. in addition to having numbered streets, also has streets identified as a letter followed by Street, going as high as the letter W. New York City has avenues titled Avenue followed by the letter of the alphabet. The idea for such a system was developed by Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the numbered street system is criticized for taking away the individuality from a community that a named street would provide. The city of Baltimore, Maryland, has numbered streets in the part of the city. The numbered streets, which go as high as 43rd Street, unlike in Washington, where the numbered streets run north–south, Baltimores numbered streets run west–east. All begin their names with either West or East, depending on which side of Charles Street the block is located, some of Baltimores numbered streets are well known for various reasons. 28th and 29th streets, a pair, are the only numbered streets to have an interchange with I-83. They use the designations to the east of the expressway. East 33rd Street was the location of the now-demolished Memorial Stadium, home to the Baltimore Orioles for 38 years and the Baltimore Colts for 31. West 34th Street is the location of the annual Miracle on 34th Street, the City of Chicago is set on a grid with eight standard city blocks per mile. Some blocks are divided in half. A standard block has 100 address numbers, meaning there are 800 numbers per mile, Chicago address numbering begins downtown at State Street and Madison Street, State Street is 0 east and west, and Madison Street is 0 north and south. Major streets a mile apart have address numbers that, for the most part, are multiples of 800, the south side of the city uses numbered east–west streets, although older streets that were already named retained their names, particularly in the Loop. As stated above, Chicago house numbers are assigned at the rate of 8 blocks to a mile

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St. Louis
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St. Louis is an independent city and major U. S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois. Prior to European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, in 1764, following Frances defeat in the Seven Years War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase, during the 19th century, St. Louis developed as a major port on the Mississippi River. In the 1870 Census, St. Louis was ranked as the 4th-largest city in the United States and it separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics, the economy of metro St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. This city has become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical. St. Louis has 2 professional sports teams, the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the city is commonly identified with the 630-foot tall Gateway Arch in Downtown St. Louis. The area that would become St. Louis was a center of the Native American Mississippian culture and their major regional center was at Cahokia Mounds, active from 900 AD to 1500 AD. Due to numerous major earthworks within St. Louis boundaries, the city was nicknamed as the Mound City and these mounds were mostly demolished during the citys development. Historic Native American tribes in the area included the Siouan-speaking Osage people, whose territory extended west, European exploration of the area was first recorded in 1673, when French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette traveled through the Mississippi River valley. Five years later, La Salle claimed the region for France as part of La Louisiane. The earliest European settlements in the area were built in Illinois Country on the east side of the Mississippi River during the 1690s and early 1700s at Cahokia, Kaskaskia, migrants from the French villages on the opposite side of the Mississippi River founded Ste. In early 1764, after France lost the 7 Years War, Pierre Laclède, the early French families built the citys economy on the fur trade with the Osage, as well as with more distant tribes along the Missouri River. The Chouteau brothers gained a monopoly from Spain on the fur trade with Santa Fe, French colonists used African slaves as domestic servants and workers in the city. In 1780 during the American Revolutionary War, St. Louis was attacked by British forces, mostly Native American allies, the founding of St. Louis began in 1763. Pierre Laclede led an expedition to set up a fur-trading post farther up the Mississippi River, before then, Laclede had been a very successful merchant. For this reason, he and his trading partner Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent were offered monopolies for six years of the fur trading in that area

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Mississippi River
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The Mississippi River is the chief river of the largest drainage system on the North American continent. Flowing entirely in the United States, it rises in northern Minnesota, with its many tributaries, the Mississippis watershed drains all or parts of 31 U. S. states and 2 Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. The Mississippi ranks as the fourth longest and fifteenth largest river in the world by discharge, the river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Native Americans long lived along the Mississippi River and its tributaries, most were hunter-gatherers, but some, such as the Mound Builders, formed prolific agricultural societies. The arrival of Europeans in the 16th century changed the way of life as first explorers, then settlers. The river served first as a barrier, forming borders for New Spain, New France, and the early United States, and then as a vital transportation artery and communications link. Formed from thick layers of the silt deposits, the Mississippi embayment is one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the country. In recent years, the river has shown a shift towards the Atchafalaya River channel in the Delta. The word itself comes from Messipi, the French rendering of the Anishinaabe name for the river, see below in the History section for additional information. In addition to historical traditions shown by names, there are at least two measures of a rivers identity, one being the largest branch, and the other being the longest branch. Using the largest-branch criterion, the Ohio would be the branch of the Lower Mississippi. Using the longest-branch criterion, the Middle Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock-Hellroaring Creek River would be the main branch and its length of at least 3,745 mi is exceeded only by the Nile, the Amazon, and perhaps the Yangtze River among the longest rivers in the world. The source of this waterway is at Browers Spring,8,800 feet above sea level in southwestern Montana and this is exemplified by the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the phrase Trans-Mississippi as used in the name of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. It is common to qualify a regionally superlative landmark in relation to it, the New Madrid Seismic Zone along the river is also noteworthy. These various basic geographical aspects of the river in turn underlie its human history and present uses of the waterway, the Upper Mississippi runs from its headwaters to its confluence with the Missouri River at St. Louis, Missouri. The source of the Upper Mississippi branch is traditionally accepted as Lake Itasca,1,475 feet above sea level in Itasca State Park in Clearwater County, however, the lake is in turn fed by a number of smaller streams. From its origin at Lake Itasca to St. Louis, Missouri, fourteen of these dams are located above Minneapolis in the headwaters region and serve multiple purposes, including power generation and recreation. The remaining 29 dams, beginning in downtown Minneapolis, all locks and were constructed to improve commercial navigation of the upper river

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Downtown St. Louis
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Downtown St. Louis is the central business district of St. Louis, Missouri, the hub of tourism and entertainment, and the anchor of the St. Louis metropolitan area. The downtown is bounded by Cole Street to the north, the front to the east, Chouteau Avenue to the south. The downtown is the site of many corporate headquarters, including Stifel Nicolaus, HOK, Laclede Group, the founding history of the downtown area of St. Louis relates to the founding of the city. Pierre Laclede chose to found the city on the bluffs because it had access to the river for trade and transportation, was above most floods, Laclede found the present-day downtown area the perfect place to run a bustling fur trade with the Native Americans of the region. In the communitys early days, Laclede acted as the de facto leader of St. Louis, while the settlement was named after King Louis IX of France, most residents called it Laclede Village. Laclede planned the format of the city streets, and oversaw the construction of the settlements first buildings, although initial growth was slow, the settlement received a stimulus when France surrendered all of its territorial holdings east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain after the Seven Years War. Many French colonists moved from east of the Mississippi River to St. Louis to escape British rule, by 1776 St. Louis had 300 residents and almost 75 buildings. By 1804 the population had tripled to 900, yet the village was still without a local government, after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, a flood of immigrants from the United States came to the village. By 1836 the City had 15,000 inhabitants, but it did not have basic institutions, such as banks, the downtown streets were being renamed after prominent American settlers. By the mid-19th century, the area was becoming more commercial than residential, the commercial activity of St. Louis was centered on Main Street Washington Avenue, and Walnut Street. The St. Louis Fire of 1849 destroyed much of this district, in time the city recovered from the fire and regained its place as one of the commercial centers of the Midwest. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the St. Louis downtown experienced a building boom, in its heyday, the downtown was a bustling center of commerce. By the mid-20th century, the area began to decline as businesses moved west and to the suburbs. During the 1970s, owners razed dozens of buildings and replaced them with parking lots. Also, in 2004, the historic St. Louis Century Building was demolished to create a parking deck, the present-day downtown has moved further south, yet the Historic downtown remains. Recent preservation efforts have heightened awareness of the significance of the area. Both major universities in St. Louis began in the downtown region, St. Louis University was founded in 1818 by Bishop DuBourg, who rented a stone house on Market Street to house its first class. The university was discontinued in 1826 because of Bishop DuBourgs pastoral duties, the university expanded greatly, constructing numerous buildings

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Downtown West, St. Louis
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Downtown West is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. It is, as the name suggests, a section of downtown that is further inland, St. Louis City Hall, the Peabody Opera House, the Scottrade Center arena, and St. Louis Union Station are all located in Downtown West. It is bounded by Jefferson Avenue on the west, Tucker Boulevard on the east, Cole Street on the north, and Chouteau Avenue on the south. In 2010 Downtown Wests racial makeup was 56. 3% White,36. 9% Black,0. 3% Native American,3. 7% Asian,2. 9% Two or More Races,2. 6% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino origin. City Museum Downtown St. Louis Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center a train and interstate bus terminal downtownstl. org

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Gateway Arch
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The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot monument in St. Louis in the U. S. state of Missouri. Louis, as well as a popular tourist destination, the Arch was designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen in 1947, construction began on February 12,1963, and was completed on October 28,1965, for $13 million. The monument opened to the public on June 10,1967 and it is located at the site of St. Louis founding on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He communicated his idea to mayor Bernard Dickmann, who on December 15,1933 and they sanctioned the proposal, and the nonprofit Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association was formed. Smith was appointed chairman and Dickmann vice chairman, many locals did not approve of depleting public funds for the cause. SaLees, Smiths daughter, related that people would tell him we needed more practical things. The association expected that $30 million would be needed to undertake the construction of such a monument and it called upon the federal government to foot three-quarters of the bill. The suggestion to renew the riverfront was not original, as projects were attempted but lacked popularity. The Jefferson memorial idea emerged amid the economic disarray of the Great Depression, the project was expected to create 5,000 jobs for three to four years. Committee members began to raise awareness by organizing fundraisers and writing pamphlets. They also engaged Congress by planning budgets and preparing bills, in addition to researching ownership of the land they had chosen, from Third Street east to the present elevated railroad. In March of the year, joint resolutions proposed the establishment of a federal commission to develop the memorial. Although the proposal aimed for only authorization, the bill incurred opposition because people suspected that JNEMA would later seek appropriation. On March 28 the Senate bill was reported out, and on April 5 it was turned over to the House Library Committee, on June 8, both the Senate and House bills were passed. On June 15, then President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the bill into law, the commission comprised 15 members, chosen by Roosevelt, the House, the Senate, and JNEMA. It first convened on December 19 in St. Louis, where members examined the project, meanwhile, in December, the JNEMA discussed organizing an architectural competition to determine the design of the monument. Local architect Louis LeBeaume had drawn up competition guidelines by January 1935, on April 13,1935, the commission certified JNEMAs project proposals, including memorial perimeters, the historical significance of the memorial, the competition, and the $30 million budget. Between February and April, the Missouri State Legislature passed an act allowing the use of bonds to facilitate the project, on April 15, then Governor Guy B

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Kosciusko, St. Louis
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Kosciusko is a mostly non-residential neighborhood located in St. Louis, Missouri. It begins at the Mississippi River front in the east and goes up to 7th Boulevard, interstate 55 is a northern border, and St. George and Dorcas Streets border the south of this neighborhood. Kosciusko is named in honor of Tadeusz Kościuszko, an American Revolutionary war general of Polish descent, within its limits are several industrial companies, including the Nooter Corporation. It is 42. 9% White,42. 9% Black, 0% Asian, 0% American Indian, the first independent charter middle school in the City is located in the neighborhood, as well. Lift for Life Academy, which opened in 2000, offers education for Grades 6 –12, the City of Saint Louis maintains one city park within the Kosciusko boundaries, Lyon Park, named after Union Civil War General Nathaniel Lyon. It houses two softball fields, a walking trail, and both a monument to General Lyon and a statue of his likeness created by artist Charles Steubenraugh. Lyon Park is bounded by South Broadway, South Second Street, Utah Street, and Arsenal Street

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Streets of St. Louis
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The streets of St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and the surrounding area of Greater St. Louis are under the jurisdiction of the City of St. Louis Street Department. According to the Streets Division, there are 1, 000-mile of streets, the street got its name from the St. Louis Arsenal a military equipment storage depot on the east end of the street that is now used primarily for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Bates Street runs in a northwest-southeast direction from Gravois Avenue in the Bevo Mill and it is named after Frederick Bates the second governor of Missouri. Biddle Street runs east-west from the neighborhood of Near North Riverfront to 20th Street in the neighborhood of Carr Square in the west. Biddle Street was named after area landowners, Major Thomas Biddle and Mrs. Anne Biddle and it was previously called Willow Street. Carr Street runs east-west in Downtown St. Louis from the Mississippi River to Jefferson Avenue and it is named after Judge William C. Carr, who in 1813 built the first brick dwelling in St Louis, in 1822, Carr Street formed part of the northern boundary of the city. Chestnut Street runs east-west street in downtown St Louis and is the boundary of the Gateway Mall. Originally La Rue Missouri, it was one of the first named east to west streets in Colonial St. Louis, after the American takeover of the city in 1804 the name was changed to North A Street. In 1826, in a planning scheme to name east-west streets after trees. The spelling was altered to its current form Chestnut in 1893, Chippewa Street runs east-west from the neighborhoods of Marine Villa, Gravois Park and Dutchtown to the neighborhoods of Lindenwood Park and St. Louis Hills. The street is named after the Chippewa people, the street is part of Missouri Route 366, and from Gravois Road to the west city limits, it was part of US Route 66. Cole Street was formerly called Wash Street up until some time in the part of the 20th Century. Historic records indicate that the change had occurred as the location of American Arithmometer Company. Today,1212 Cole Street is the location of the parking lot for KDNL-TV. Commercial Street is a street that runs north-south in Lacledes Landing near the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. Delor Street runs northwest-southeast from Kingshighway Boulevard in Princeton Heights, to Virginia Street in the neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant, named in honor of Clement Delor deTreget who founded the settlement which later became Carondelet, Missouri in 1767. Prior to 1893 a section was called Termination Street as it marked out the border of the Carondelet Commons

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Near North Riverfront, St. Louis
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Near North Riverfront is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Between 1990 and 2000 Near North Riverfront led the city in population growth. Despite this large growth, Near North Riverfront is largely non-residential. The neighborhood is served by city streets such as Tucker Boulevard, West Florissant Avenue. In 2010 Near North Riverfronts racial makeup was 55. 0% Black,43. 2% White,0. 5% Native American,0. 7% Asian,0. 4% Two or More Races,0. 2% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino origin

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Memorial Drive (St. Louis)
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Memorial Drive runs north-south in Downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It is between the central business district and the grounds of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial and Gateway Arch. It has a relationship with Interstate 44, for most of its length it runs above the sunken highway. Memorial Drive has been the topic of heated debate for a long time. In 2009, a competition was launched by the National Park Service. The Framing a Modern Masterpiece competition is intended to address this issue along with other concerns about downtown vitality. In the 1930s, work began on the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, the memorial construction continued to 1965, when the Gateway Arch was completed. In the years followed, Memorial Drive was slowly integrated into the then-Interstate 70. In the years followed, citizens and urbanists complained of the city being cut off from the memorial by the highway. Various calls were made for placing a lid over the sunken highway, the Missouri Department of Transportation did several studies to research the impact of closing the road and diverting traffic along other routes. So far nothing has happened, but in 2009 MoDOT applied for funds for repairs on Memorial Drive which would keep it more or less as it is. In December 2009, the National Park Service announced a competition to improve the memorial and has included Memorial Drive in its plans. The Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge which opened in 2014, rerouted I-70 north of downtown, and its former route through downtown and under Memorial Drive was redesignated as I-44

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Lemay, Missouri
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Lemay is a census-designated place in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 16,645 at the 2010 census, Lemay was named after Francois Lemai, who operated a ferry boat across the Meramec River in the early nineteenth century. Lemay is located at 38°31′57″N 90°17′7″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.5 square miles, of which 4.3 square miles is land and 0.2 square miles, or 4. 19%, is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 17,215 people,7,186 households, the population density was 3,959.0 people per square mile. There were 7,580 housing units at a density of 1,743. 2/sq mi. The racial makeup of the CDP was 98. 51% White,0. 02% African American,0. 007% Native American,0. 53% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,0. 66% from other races, and 0. 96% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 03%,34. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 16. 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.33 and the family size was 2.99. In the CDP, the population was out with 22. 8% under the age of 18,7. 7% from 18 to 24,27. 9% from 25 to 44,21. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39 years, for every 100 females there were 89.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.0 males, the median income for a household in the CDP was $34,559, and the median income for a family was $41,128. Males had an income of $31,886 versus $25,388 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $18,730. About 7. 1% of families and 10. 4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13. 2% of those under the age of 18 and 11. 3% of those ages 65, the River City Casino is located in Lemay. Hancock is the school district in Lemay

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St. Louis County, Missouri
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St. Louis County is a county located in the far eastern portion of Missouri. It is bounded by the Mississippi River, the Missouri River, the Meramec River, as of the 2015 Census Bureau population estimate, the population was 1,003,362, making it the most populous county in Missouri. St. Louis County borders, but does not include, the city of St. Louis and it is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. During the 18th century, several settlements were established in the area that would become St. Louis County, the earliest of these, St. Louis, was begun by Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau on February 14,1764. Founded in about 1767 was Carondelet, which was at the end of what is now St. Louis. Florissant, then known as St. Ferdinand, was established in 1785 about twelve miles northwest of St. Louis on a tributary of the Missouri River. During the 1790s, very small settlements known as Creve Coeur and Point Labadie were built north, during this time, the first governing body of St. Louis County was established. On October 1,1812, the District of St. Louis was renamed St. Louis County during a reorganization of the territorys status, after the transfer of Louisiana to the United States, the authority to grant incorporation to municipalities became territorial and, later, state power. The first to gain status in St. Louis County was St. Louis, which incorporated on November 9,1809 under the territorial legislature. Two towns grew substantially and incorporated as a result of the building of the Pacific Railroad in the 1850s, Pacific, Pacific, known before the railroad line connection as Franklin, straddles St. Louis County and Franklin County, it incorporated as Pacific in 1859. Leffingwell organized the town as a suburb, and Kirkwood was granted incorporation by the state in 1865. Other areas of the county began to be settled during this period, among these were Chesterfield and Gumbo, both settled in the 1820s in west St. Louis County, and Gravois and Affton which were settled in south St. Louis County in the 1850s and 1860s. Aside from the first St. Louis Public Schools that were established in the 1830s, Louis in the east, and to the north up to Clayton Road. Another antebellum school district was Rock Hill, which provided a school across from the Rock Hill Presbyterian Church until about 1870. The first school in Florissant opened in 1819 under the direction of the Religious of the Sacred Heart, the instructor, Rose Philippine Duchesne, was a French immigrant who has been described as one of the foremost educators in the state of Missouri. The earliest public school in Florissant was the St. Ferdinand School, which was authorized by the General Assembly in 1845 and operated until 1871, from 1813 to 1830, the county underwent several changes to its government. By an act of the legislature, the Court of Quarter Sessions was succeeded by a panel of three judges of common pleas in 1813. Two years later, this panel was succeeded by a newly created county court composed of justices of the peace from the county elected to three month terms

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Bellefontaine Cemetery
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Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum located in St. Louis, Missouri. The cemetery contains 314 acres of land and over 87,000 graves, including those of William Clark, Adolphus Busch, Thomas Hart Benton, many Union and Confederate soldiers from the American Civil War are buried at Bellefontaine, as well as numerous local and state politicians. On March 7,1849, banker William McPherson and lawyer John Fletcher Darby assembled a group of some of St. Louis’s most prominent citizens to found the Rural Cemetery Association of St. Louis. This association sought to respond to the needs of a rapidly growing St. Louis by establishing a new cemetery several miles outside city limits, many were also convinced that city cemeteries represented a public health hazard. These problems were compounded during the summer of 1849, when a cholera epidemic swept through St. Louis. The 138-acre Hempstead farm was situated along the road to Fort Bellefontaine, Hotchkiss went on to serve as superintendent of the cemetery for the next 46 years, he designed most of Bellefontaine’s roadways and landscaping, and oversaw maintenance of the grounds. During this time, the cemetery steadily acquired more land so as to room for future growth. By 1865, it had reached its size of 314 acres. The first burial at Bellefontaine Cemetery took place on April 27,1850, bodies from older graveyards within the city of St. Louis were moved to Bellefontaine, including some from the cemetery by the Old Cathedral near the Mississippi River. Bellefontaine was also the place for several victims of the 1855 Gasconade Bridge train disaster. Also interred at Bellefontaine are members of several notable brewing families, including the Anheusers, Buschs, Lemps, in 1909, the renowned St. Louis architectural firm Eames and Young was commissioned to design a new chapel for the cemetery. The Hotchkiss Chapel, named for the cemetery’s first architect, was renovated in 2009. The chapel is used for weddings and memorial services. Two new outdoor columbaria have also opened for inurnments, and a green burial natural interment section is pending, space for traditional casketed/vaulted ground burial exists within Bellefontaines dedicated grounds for the next 200 years at present rates of usage. As of 2012 over 87,000 people have been buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery, Bellefontaine remains a non-profit, non-denominational cemetery, and still holds over 100 acres of open, unused land. Some of this land has recently been converted into prairie. Bellefontaine contains over 14 miles of paved roads and, as an arboretum, is home to over 180 species of trees. A new lakeside garden and columbarium were completed in 2010, the oldest graves in the cemetery are located on pioneer Edward Hempstead’s family lot and date as far back as 1816

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Calvary Cemetery (St. Louis)
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Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery located in St. Louis, Missouri and operated by the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Founded in 1854, it is the second oldest cemetery in the Archdiocese, Calvary Cemetery contains 470 acres of land and more than 300,000 graves, including those of General William Tecumseh Sherman, Dred Scott, Tennessee Williams, Kate Chopin, and Auguste Chouteau. In 1849 a cholera epidemic struck St. Louis and claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people, at the same time, existing cemeteries in St. Louis were nearly full and had no room to expand. Recognizing the need for a new rural Catholic cemetery, Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick purchased Senator Henry Clay’s “Old Orchard Farm” in 1853, located several miles northwest of St. Louis. Kenrick initially set aside the eastern half of the 323-acre farm for a new cemetery, and kept the western half for himself, thus Calvary Cemetery opened for burials in 1854, with Archbishop Kenrick as its first president. Prior to the establishment of Calvary Cemetery, parts of the Clay farm had served as a place for Native Americans. After 1854, these remains were reinterred in a grave under a large crucifix at one of the highest points in the cemetery. Graves at other Catholic cemeteries across St. Louis, such as Old Cathedral, Rock Springs, Holy Trinity, Old St. Patricks, New Bremen and others were dug up. Accessible space for traditional burials is available for the next 300 years at Calvary Cemetery. When they arrived in St. Louis these men had to rely on gestures to communicate. Two of the men, Black Eagle and Speaking Eagle, died of illness while in St. Louis and are buried in Calvary Cemetery, Senator Thomas Hart Benton on Bloody Island John Baptiste Charles Lucas, U. S

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7-Eleven
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7-Eleven is an international chain of convenience stores, headquartered in Irving, Texas, that operates, franchises, and licenses some 56,600 stores in 18 countries. The chain was known as Totem Stores until renamed in 1946 and its parent company, Seven-Eleven Japan Co. Ltd. is located in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Seven-Eleven Japan is held by the Seven & I Holdings Co, the companys first outlets were named Totem Stores because customers toted away their purchases. Some stores featured genuine Alaskan totem poles in front of the store, in 1946, the chains name was changed from Totem to 7-Eleven to reflect the companys new, extended hours,7,00 am to 11,00 pm, seven days per week. In November 1999, the name of the US company was changed from The Southland Corporation to 7-Eleven Inc. He eventually bought the Southland Ice Company and turned it into Southland Corporation, in 1928, Jenna Lira brought a totem pole as a souvenir from Alaska and placed it in front of the store. The pole served as a tool for the company, as it attracted a great deal of attention. Soon, executives added totem poles in front of every store, later on, the stores began operating under the name Totem Stores. In the same year, the company began constructing gasoline stations in some of its Dallas locations as an experiment, joe Thompson also provided a distinct characteristic to the companys stores, training the staff so that people would receive the same quality and service in every store. Southland also started to have a uniform for its ice station service boys and this became the major factor in the companys success as a retail convenience store. In 1931, the Great Depression affected the company, sending it toward bankruptcy, nevertheless, the company continued its operations through re-organization and receivership. Overton Jr. also helped to revive the companys finances by selling the bonds for seven cents on the dollar. This brought the companys ownership under the control of a board of directors, in 1946, in an effort to continue the companys post-war recovery, the name of the franchise was changed to 7-Eleven to reflect the stores new hours of operation, which were unprecedented at the time. In 1969, 7-Eleven experimented with a 24-hour schedule in Austin, Texas, later on, 24-hour stores were established in Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas, as well as Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1971, Southland acquired convenience stores of the former Pak-A-Sak chain owned by Graham Allen Penniman, Sr. of Shreveport, with the purchase in 1964 of 126 Speedee Mart franchised convenience stores in California, the company entered the franchise business. The company signed its first area licensing agreement in 1968 with Garb-Ko, Inc. of Saginaw, Michigan, in December 1987, John Philp Thompson, the chairman and CEO of 7-Eleven, completed a $5.2 billion management buyout of the company. Various assets, such as the Chief Auto Parts chain, the ice division and this downsizing also resulted in numerous metropolitan areas losing 7-Eleven stores to rival convenience store operators. In October 1990, the heavily indebted Southland Corp. filed a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to control of 70% of the company to Japanese affiliate Ito-Yokado

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Union Station (MetroLink)
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Union Station is a St. Louis MetroLink station in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The station is adjacent to the Union Station shopping center and it was one of six MetroLink stations in the Downtown St. Louis Ride Free Zone at lunch time on weekdays prior to the 2009 service reduction. The station is on the 18th Street side of Union Station, St. Louis Metro Clark Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

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Union Station (St. Louis)
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St. Louis Union Station, a National Historic Landmark, was a passenger intercity train terminal in St. Louis, Missouri. Once the worlds largest and busiest train station, it was converted in the early 1980s into a hotel, shopping center, today, it serves light-rail passengers on MetroLinks Red and Blue Lines, while the citys intercity train station sits a quarter-mile to the east. The station opened on September 1,1894, and was owned by the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. The station was designed by Theodore Link, and included three areas, the Headhouse and the Midway, and the 11. 5-acre Train Shed designed by civil engineer George H. Pegram. The headhouse originally housed a hotel, a restaurant, passenger waiting rooms and it featured a gold-leafed Grand Hall, Romanesque arches, a 65-foot barrel-vaulted ceiling and stained-glass windows. The clock tower is 280 feet high, Union Stations headhouse and midway are constructed of Indiana limestone and initially included 42 tracks under its vast trainshed terminating in the stub-end terminal. At its height, the station combined the St. Louis passenger services of 22 railroads, at its opening, it was the worlds largest and busiest railroad station and its trainshed was the largest roof span in the world. In 1903, the station was expanded to accommodate visitors to the 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair. At this time, Union station was noted as being one of the largest, if not the largest, railway station in all of North America, in the 1940s, it handled 100,000 passengers a day. The famous photograph of Harry S, with the takeover of national rail passenger service by Amtrak in 1971, passenger train service to St. Louis was reduced to only three trains a day. Amtrak stopped using Union Station on October 31,1978, the six trains daily did not justify such a large facility, the last to leave Union Station was a Chicago-bound Inter-American. Passenger service shifted to an Amshack one block east, now the site of the Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center, the station was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970, as an important surviving example of large-scale railroad architecture from the late 19th century. In August 1985, after a $150 million renovation designed by HOK, Union Station was reopened with a 539-room hotel, shopping mall, restaurants, federal historic rehabilitation tax credits were used to transform Union Station into one of the citys most visited attractions. The station rehabilitation by Conrad Schmitt Studios remains one of the largest adaptive re-use projects in the United States, the hotel is housed in the headhouse and part of the train shed, which also houses a lake and shopping, entertainment and dining establishments. Omni was the hotel operator, followed by Hyatt Regency Hotel chain. In January 2010, St. Louis Union Station underwent another major redevelopment, the hotel was to take over the Midway area of the station and all stores have been relocated to the train shed shopping arcade. These major improvements and redevelopments were to be finished by 2011, Lodging Hospitality Management bought Union Station in 2012. It rebranded the hotel as a DoubleTree, some architectural elements from the building have been removed in renovations and taken to the Sauget, Illinois storage site of the St. Louis Building Arts Foundation

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St. Louis Gateway Mall
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The Gateway Mall in St. Louis, Missouri is an open green space running linearly, one block wide, from the Gateway Arch at Memorial Drive to Union Station at 20th Street. Located in the downtown, it runs between Market Street and Chestnut Street. In the early 21st century, there are plans to remodel areas of the mall for additional uses, City planners hope to incorporate the many downtown locations into one mall area. The Mall began as part of the Comprehensive Plan of 1907 and that plan originally called for the removal of buildings between 13th and 14th streets from Clark north to Olive streets to form a new park mall. This did not take place, and different players pushed the similar Central Traffic-Parkway plan in 1912 and this intended to clear buildings between Tucker and Jefferson in a one-block-wide trip between Market and Chestnut streets. A later phase of the project would have extended the mall as far as Grand Avenue and it had the support of Mayor Henry Kiel, but in a 1915 referendum on the plan, voters defeated it. The City Plan Commission published another downtown plan in 1919, the Public Building Plan called for the clearing of buildings for a park space between 12th and 14th streets. The first section between 12th and 13th would extend from Market north to Olive by the Central Library, the second, between 13th and 14th, would be between Market and Chestnut. This was approved by voters in 1923 with an $87 million bond to support acquisition and demolition of properties for certain spaces. In 1939, as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, in 1940, the city commissioned the Carl Milles’ fountain, The Meeting of the Waters, on Aloe Plaza in front of Union Station. In the 1950s, city leaders successfully completed the park blocks between 15th and 18th streets, in 1965, voters approved a $2 million bond issue to build Kiener Plaza on the block between Broadway and 6th street. In 1966, voters defeated a plan to extend the mall to Kiener Plaza. It secured one block between 10th and 11th streets, demolished the buildings and developed the space in 1976. It proved unpopular, and the block was redesignated as the site of Richard Serra’s sculpture Twain, in 1982, mayor Vincent Schoemehl announced a public-private partnership called the Pride Redevelopment Corporation. The Pride plan was to remove the buildings in the mall. Three large historic buildings, the Title Guarantee, Buder. Only one half-block office building was constructed, the 15-story Gateway One, the building was criticized as demonstrating the very qualities it was created to replace. Its height obstructed the view of the Arch, which was supposed to be highlighted along the Mall, in addition, its mass made the section of the mall on its block seem private and inaccessible

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Carr Square, St. Louis
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Carr Square is a neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. The near Northside neighborhood is bounded by Cass Avenue on the North, Cole Street on the South, North Tucker Boulevard and North 13th Street on the East and it was the site, from 1954 to 1971, of the infamous Pruitt–Igoe public housing complex. In 2010 Carr Squares racial makeup was 98. 0% Black,0. 5% White,0. 3% Native American,0. 9% Two or More Races,0. 5% of the population was of Hispanic or Latino origin. In June 2013 Forbes magazine profiled new streetcar systems of ten American cities that had built or were building new streetcar systems. According to Forbes, St. Louis is considering building a new line to connect downtown to Carr Square

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Paul McKee (developer)
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Paul McKee is a St. Louis, Missouri-area property developer. McKees public profile has increased because of a proposed multi-billion dollar redevelopment project in a depressed part of North St. Louis city. McKees property management and development company, McEagle Properties, is based in OFallon, McKee is married to Marguerite Midge McKee, and the two have four children and 14 grandchildren. They live in the suburb of Huntleigh. McKees entrepreneurship started with the co-founding of construction firm Paric Corp. in 1979 and he is a founding member of the board and past chairman of BJC HealthCare, the areas largest employer. McKee is a political operator and uses that skill to his business advantage. He has donated tens of thousands of dollars to politicians of both parties, precisely how much is difficult to determine because much of it is donated through corporations. McKee says that he favors neither party particularly strongly, but follow the business agenda, Louis International Airport as a cargo stopover from China to South America. Louis County and is home to Express Scripts, and Hazelwood Commerce Center. In May 2009 the redevelopment idea was revealed as Northside. It would include four commercial centers totaling over 3,000,000 square feet of new retail and office space,1,000,000 square feet of industrial space, new homes, parks. The commercial space would play host to 22,000 new jobs, McKee expects the project to take 15 years. He has asked the City of St. Louis for $409,917,496 in tax increment financing to get the project off the ground. McKee himself describes the project at this point as a rather than a plan. He began the project by buying up houses in the area. McKee addressed concerns at a meeting with neighborhood residents in May 2009. The southern part of Old North Saint Louis is still in the vision area

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Interstate 64
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Interstate 64 is an Interstate Highway in the Eastern United States. Its western terminus is at I-70, U. S. Route 40 and its eastern terminus is at an interchange with I-264 and I-664 at Bowers Hill in Chesapeake, Virginia. At 953.74 miles, I-64 is the second longest interstate highway not ending with a 5 or 0, the Missouri Department of Transportation has completed extending I-64 to I-70 in Wentzville, Missouri. I-64 overlaps with I-55, I-57, I-75, I-77, I-81, I-64 does not maintain exit number continuity for any of the overlaps, as each of the six north-south routes maintain their exit numbering on their respective overlaps with I-64. This road is also the southernmost portion of the Avenue of the Saints, an interchange at Highway N OFallon, Missouri opened on December 13,2004. This interchange also accommodates the tie-in of the Missouri Route 364 freeway to I-64, in April 2007, construction started to rebuild 10.5 miles of I-64 in St. Louis, Missouri, from Spoede Road to Kingshighway. This project included repaving the road, rebuilding the overpasses and interchanges. Construction resulted in the closure of portions of the expressway in 2008 and 2009. In 2008, I-64 was closed from I-270 to I-170, re-opening December 15,2008, beginning December 15,2008, I-64 from I-170 to Kingshighway was closed. The portion of Interstate 64 in St. Louis has been named the Jack Buck Memorial Highway, I-64 enters Illinois from St. Louis, Missouri, via the Poplar Street Bridge, where it overlaps I-55 as it crosses the Mississippi River. After crossing the city of East St. Louis and the rest of suburban St. Clair County, shortly after passing Mid-America Airport at Exit 23, I-64 enters Clinton County, then Washington County. After providing access to such as Carlyle, Breese, Nashville, and Centralia. East of Mt. Vernon in Illinois, services along I-64 are few, the freeway crosses Jefferson, Wayne, and White counties as it progresses east toward Indiana and the Evansville area. East of the St Louis area, there are numerous oil wells dotting the landscape, the section from IL127 to I-57 opened on October 4,1974. The section from IL161 to IL127 opened in December 1973, the section in the Metro East, except for a short section near I-55/70, opened on December 23,1975. The section from US460 to US45 opened on August 7,1975, I-64 crosses the Wabash River and enters the state of Indiana. Near milepost 61, there is a change from Central Time Zone to Eastern Time Zone. As with all time zone changes on highways maintained by the Indiana Department of Transportation, the 123-mile route in Indiana can be described as being somewhat winding, especially the farther east one travels within the state

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Transportation in St. Louis
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The city of St. Louis also supports a public transportation network that includes bus and light rail service. The city of St. Louis contains four interstate highways connect to a larger regional highway system. Interstate 70, an east-west highway, runs roughly from the northwest corner of the city to downtown St. Louis, Interstate 44 terminates at Interstate 70 on the western end of the Stan Musial Bridge. An east-west roadway that connects the city with surrounding communities is Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, which carries traffic from the western edge of the city to downtown. River transportation is available through the Port of St. Louis, the Port Authority added 2 new small fire and rescue craft in 2012 and 2013. Light rail service in the city of St. Louis consists of two operating on double track servicing the same stations in the city, although branching to different destinations outside the city. Both lines enter the city north of Forest Park on the edge of the city or on the Eads Bridge in downtown St. Louis to Illinois. All of the track is in independent right of way. All stations are independent entry, while all platforms are flush-level with trains, Rail service is provided by the Bi-State Development Agency, which is funded by a sales taxes levied in the city and other counties in the region. The Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center acts as the hub station in the city of St. Louis, linking the citys rail system, local bus system, passenger rail service. Lambert St. Louis International Airport, owned and operated by the City of St. Louis, is 11 miles northwest of downtown along I-70 between I-170 and I-270 in St. Louis County and it is the largest and busiest airport in the state. In 2011, the airport saw 255 daily departures to about 90 domestic and international locations, the airport serves as a focus city for Southwest Airlines and was a former hub for Trans World Airlines and former focus-city for American Airlines and AmericanConnection. Commuter rail and long-distance passenger train service in the city is provided by Amtrak, all Amtrak trains serving St. Louis use the Gateway Multimodal Transportation Center downtown. Amtrak trains terminating in the city include the Lincoln Service to Chicago, Illinois, St. Louis is an intermediate stop on the Texas Eagle route which provides long distance passenger service between San Antonio, Texas and Chicago, Illinois. The Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis is a switching, the company operates 30 diesel-electric locomotives to move railcars around the classification yards, deliver railcars to local industries, and ready trains for departure. This infrastructure is used by commuter rail and long-distance passenger trains serving St. Louis. St. Louis District Foster Townsend Rail Logistics - formerly Manufacturers Railway River Yard - Dorcas St. & S. Broadway, the city is also served by Madison County Transit, which connects downtown St. Louis to Madison County, Illinois. Taxicab service in the city is provided by private companies regulated by the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission, rates vary by vehicle type, size, passengers and distance, and by regulation all taxicab fares must be calculated using a taximeter and be payable in cash or credit card

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Numbered streets of St. Louis
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Number streets of St. Louis, Missouri, start at the Mississippi River and increase as they go west. They are primarily found Downtown and in Downtown West, 1st Street is broken by the grounds of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, location of the Gateway Arch. South of the Memorial, it runs from Poplar Street down through the Kosiusko neighborhood to Victor Street where it dead-ends, 1st Street starts up again on Potomac Street and eventually turns into Gasconade Street. To the north, it runs from Washington Avenue as far as North Market Street (different from the downtown Market Street, 1st Street briefly shows up again in Near North Riverfront before turning into Kissock Avenue. In the 1930s, the part of 3rd street beside the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial was converted into Memorial Drive, North of Biddle Street, 3rd merges with Broadway and continues on to the city limits. 5th Street is officially known as Broadway, Broadway goes as far south as Lemay in St. Louis County where it turns into Kingston Drive. To the north, Broadway intersects with 3rd Street and runs with it as far as Riverview Blvd where it then becomes Bellefontaine Road, Broadway is one of the major boulevards for St. Louis. In the north it passes OFallon Park, Bellefontaine Cemetery, 12th Street, later 12th Boulevard, is now officially known as Tucker Boulevard, renamed for former Mayor Raymond R. Tucker. It is double sized and serves as the border between Downtown and Downtown West, 17th Street is notorious for the 7-11 that operates by Plaza Square Apartments. As the only store in the area it receives a large amount of foot traffic. 18th Street in St. Louis, Missouri runs north-south through Downtown West, truman Parkway becomes 18th at Chouteau Avenue and continues north over the Union MetroLink Station. It passes between the St. Louis Post Office and Union Station on to the Gateway Mall where it separates the Malls Neighborhood Room from Aloe Plaza and it continues north past the Salvation Armys Railton Building. 18th Street ends in Carr Square where it comes to a T on OFallon Street, as part of Paul McKees NorthSide project, the broken section of 22nd street near the I-64 interchange is to be restored and rebuilt. A large office tower has been proposed to anchor it to the expanded Gateway Mall, 23rd is an irregular street that is broken up in many places. One such break was created by the Pruitt–Igoe site, 24th Street has disappeared over time. 25th Street appears to the north of downtown where Jefferson Avenue curves and creates space for another road, streets of St. Louis, Missouri Charles C. Morgan, Street pavements in St. Louis William B

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Grand Boulevard (St. Louis)
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Grand Boulevard is a major, seven to five-lane wide, north-south thoroughfare that runs through the center of St. Louis, Missouri. It runs north through Carondelet Park in the portion of the city to the Mississippi River north of the McKinley Bridge. Neighborhoods that it runs through include Dutchtown, Tower Grove East, Tower Grove South, Compton Heights, Tiffany, Midtown, Jef-Vander-Lou, Fairground, Grand Boulevard connects with the St. Louis Metrolink light rail service at Grand Station. The station was closed in spring 2011 due to demolition and replacement of the viaduct on Grand spanning the Metrolink tracks, industrial train tracks, the project is expected to take 18-24 months and will include the replacement of the Grand Avenue station. As of August 20,2012, the new larger metro and bus station, Grand Blvd also has the 70 Grand MetroBus, the busiest bus route in the St. Louis area. The route number comes from a line that previously operated on track in the center lane of Grand Boulevard with that number. Sportsmans Park Fairground Park Divoli Branch library St. Louis

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Olive Boulevard (St. Louis)
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Route 340 is a highway in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Its western terminus is Route 100 in Ellisville, and its eastern terminus isat an intersection with Ferguson Avenue, the stretch of Route 340 between Manchester Road and the Interstate 64 / U. S.40 / U. S.61 interchange is known locally as Clarkson Road. The remainder of Route 340 between this intersection and its terminus is variously known as Olive Boulevard (which does not connect with Olive Street in the city of St. Louis. Route 340 ends at Ferguson Avenue in University City, but Olive Boulevard continues to Skinker Boulevard on St. Louis city line, MetroBus Route 91 travels the entirety of the Olive Street Road and Olive Boulevard part of Route 340 from Chesterfield Mall to the Delmar Loop. Part of MetroBus Route 58X travels along the entirety of Clarkson Road, the entire route is in St. Louis County

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Missouri Route 115
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Route 115 is a highway in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Its western terminus is at exit 237 of Interstate 70 in Berkeley near Lambert-St, Route 115s eastern terminus is also at I-70, at exit 248A, in St. Louis, near the McKinley Bridge. The road is known as Natural Bridge Road, Natural Bridge Avenue. It is one of two Missouri Highways that has a designation, yet runs in an east–west direction. West of I-70 exit 237, the name Natural Bridge Road continues westward for two sections of road,1.4 miles as the service road of I-70. Portions of the same right-of-way exist as a section of St. Charles Rock Road west of I-270 and this route was once part of Route 115. After the Discovery Bridge on the portion of Route 370 opened in 1992. In 1998, the former Route 115 bridge across the Missouri River was demolished, old St. Charles Bridge McKinley Bridge

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Maryland Heights Expressway (St. Louis)
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Highway 141 is a highway located in the western St. Louis metropolitan area. Its northern terminus is at Route 370 in Bridgeton, its terminus is at U. S. Route 61/U. S. Route 67 in Arnold, in Jefferson County, the northern stretches of the highway are often referred to as the Maryland Heights Expressway or the Earth City Expressway. The section of Route 141 between Interstate 64 and the St. Louis County/Jefferson County line was upgraded to six lanes in a project completed in 2003, the section in Jefferson County is four lanes. For the majority of its duration,141 is a highway with four to eight lanes. As of August,2012, a new six-lane realignment opened between Ladue Road and Page Avenue, with interchanges at Ladue, Olive, and Page. The section between Page and Olive, which was constructed by St. Louis County has been turned over to the Missouri Department of Transportation, Maryland Heights Expressway and Earth City Expressway have also been designated as 141. As such, Route 141 now runs from US 61/67 in Arnold to Route 370 in Bridgeton

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Earth City Expressway (St. Louis)
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Highway 141 is a highway located in the western St. Louis metropolitan area. Its northern terminus is at Route 370 in Bridgeton, its terminus is at U. S. Route 61/U. S. Route 67 in Arnold, in Jefferson County, the northern stretches of the highway are often referred to as the Maryland Heights Expressway or the Earth City Expressway. The section of Route 141 between Interstate 64 and the St. Louis County/Jefferson County line was upgraded to six lanes in a project completed in 2003, the section in Jefferson County is four lanes. For the majority of its duration,141 is a highway with four to eight lanes. As of August,2012, a new six-lane realignment opened between Ladue Road and Page Avenue, with interchanges at Ladue, Olive, and Page. The section between Page and Olive, which was constructed by St. Louis County has been turned over to the Missouri Department of Transportation, Maryland Heights Expressway and Earth City Expressway have also been designated as 141. As such, Route 141 now runs from US 61/67 in Arnold to Route 370 in Bridgeton